The government has reduced the quota for female teachers in non-government schools. It is mandatory to appoint 40 per cent female teachers in city or pourashova and 30 per cent in village schools. For non-compliance, non-government institutions would lose official recognition and cease to receive the money the government pays as teachers’ pay. Out of 33,545 secondary and higher secondary schools, madrasahs and technical institutions, 26,360 MPO institutions get teachers’ pay from the government.

If an institution does not get female teachers, it can recruit male teachers after publishing advertisements in a popular daily thrice.

The female teachers’ quota deserves support as they are deprived and lag behind. We think the quota would encourage more women to become teachers. To stop the increasing rate of drop-out of girl students, guardians and parents have to be more conscious of the value of higher education for their daughters. The practice of marrying off the girls in the rural society when they pass the eighth or ninth grade, must come to an end.

Not a single madrasha has 30 per cent female teachers. The government should look into the situation. The madrasha curriculum should be digitalised and modernised to encourage people to send their daughters to madrasahs. But to ensure women’s education, their security should be improved.

In a welcome development, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court recently issued guidelines against the harassment of women. Women, who constitute more than 50 per cent of the nation should get their due share in all spheres of life. Our country can be developed with both women and men being able to make their contribution.

Unfortunately, women’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) is not recognised. Nowadays, there is no sector including agriculture and industry where they do not work. Women’s hard work at home goes unrecorded and unrecognised

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